Pennsylvania SR388: A Resolution honoring Fannie Lou Hamer on the 109th anniversary of her birth in recognition of her vast and valiant efforts to ensure the civil rights of minorities, women and low-income families.

What the bill says

A resolution Honoring Fannie Lou Hamer on the 109th anniversary of her birth in recognition of her vast and valiant efforts to ensure the civil rights of minorities, women and low-income families.

From the introduced text, October 8, 2026:

A RESOLUTION Honoring Fannie Lou Hamer on the 109th anniversary of her birth in recognition of her vast and valiant efforts to ensure the civil rights of minorities, women and low-income families. WHEREAS, Fannie Lou Hamer, née Townsend, was born October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi, the youngest of 20 children to a family of cotton sharecroppers; and WHEREAS, Ms. Hamer moved with her family to Sunflower County, Mississippi, when she was two years of age, where she began working the fields at six years of age; and WHEREAS, In 1961, during a surgery to remove a tumor, Ms. Hamer was given a hysterectomy without her consent as part of Mississippi's plan at the time to reduce the number of poor African Americans in the state, coining the term "Mississippi appendectomy" for the disturbingly common involuntary sterilization of African-American women in the South during the 1960s; and WHEREAS, Ms. Hamer began attending nonviolent protests for civil rights in 1962 and began actively helping with African- American voter registration efforts in the Jim Crow South, seeing civil rights not just as a political issue, but a religious and moral issue; and WHEREAS, Ms. Hamer dedicated her life to fighting for civil rights, first working through her town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi's Regional Council of Negro Leadership and later working for …

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Sponsors

• Arthur Haywood (D, 4) · primary sponsor
• Jay Costa (D, 43)
• Sharif Street (D, 3)
• Vincent Hughes (D, 7)
• Amanda Cappelletti (D, 17)
• Steven Santarsiero (D, 10)
• John Kane (D, 9)

Latest actions

1. October 8, 2026: Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, Oct. 8, 2026

Common questions

What is SR388?

SR388 is a bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): A Resolution honoring Fannie Lou Hamer on the 109th anniversary of her birth in recognition of her vast and valiant efforts to ensure the civil rights of minorities, women and low-income families.

What does SR388 do?

In its own words: A resolution Honoring Fannie Lou Hamer on the 109th anniversary of her birth in recognition of her vast and valiant efforts to ensure the civil rights of minorities, women and low-income families.

What is the status of SR388?

In committee as of October 8, 2026. Latest action: Referred to RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, Oct. 8, 2026 (October 8, 2026).

Who sponsored SR388?

Arthur Haywood (D, 4), with 6 co-sponsors.

Where is the official record for SR388?

On the Pennsylvania Legislature website: https://www.palegis.us/legislation/bills/2025/sr388